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A weblog by Robin Hawley Gorsline, Queer theologian and poet, husband, father and grandfather, friend, citizen and activist—on a journey in search of embodied, soulful truth for myself and the world.

October 25, 2011

God May Have Some Good Ideas

The newspapers and online news sources are focusing on the economy, and rightly so. We are in a mess, in the United States, and in Europe, too.

I notice that many stories are about things that are not going well–the latest unemployment numbers nearly always bring on a downer. The news from the housing industry is not very good either.

But I have begun to notice that among these negatives there are little sprouts of positive news. For example, I have read recently about new housing construction remaining flat, and prices continuing to go down most places, but there are signs of some resurgence in prices, too.

Every time there is a small sign of an uptick, there is also caution: don’t get carried away, the gain is very tentative and could stop in an instant.

It has caused me to increase my prayer for economic health. It feels to me as if we have little flickers of resurgent economic life and that we need to fan them into larger blazes. Prayer can help with that.

Prayer is more helpful than much of the rhetoric that politicians throw around. Much of the time they seem to be more interested in proving that the other guy’s idea is wrong than in fixing anything.

Prayer is connecting with God, and trusting that God has some good ideas. In God We Trust. How about trying that for real, and not just printing it on our money?

About Robin Hawley Gorsline

Robin is a poet (claiming this later in life) and Queer Theologian--reflecting a soul of hope and faith and joy and justice/shalom. He is happily married to Dr. Jonathan Lebolt (20 years and counting), the proud parent of three glorious daughters (and grateful to two wonderful sons-in- law and a new one soon!), and the very proud "Papa" to Juna (6) and Annie (3).